This hospital treating injured Ukrainian fighters is full of doctors working around the clock as soldiers vow to return to the frontline.
The Russian military has spent the last three weeks bombing non-military infrastructure.
The Office of the President of Ukraine has said at least 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.
Hospitals have become overwhelmed with military and civilian victims and doctors are working tirelessly to treat injured patients.
Igor Homenko, a military surgeon and chief medical officer in one of Kyiv’s hospitals, says these are some of the most distressing scenes he's ever seen in his career.
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He said: "One injured soldier came in with a very serious heart injury. His heart stopped beating on the operating table.
"We were able to revive him and repair his heart before he was sent to a specialist hospital.
"But I was astounded he was still alive when he came here due to the severity of his injuries. What we’re seeing is extremely shocking and hard for us to cope with, both in terms of our skills but also emotionally."
He says at least half of his staff evacuated before the attacks began and only four of the nine floors of the medical centre are currently operating.
Professional military medics are surviving on just three hours of sleep a night in order to help keep the hospital running.
Dr Homenko: "It’s very hard and we’re lacking a lot of the equipment we need.
“We are seeking donations to help us cover the costs of everything as urgently as possible.”
He says about 200 patients are being treated for injuries from the war.
He said: "Yesterday we evacuated 15 injured people, three of them with severe injuries."
He described an operation that took more than six hours.
He said: "We saw a man who had punctured his vena cava in three places.
"His kidneys were smashed along with the duodenum and the liver.
"We were operating on him for a long time, and his heart almost stopped. Thankfully we were able to save him.”
Dr Homenko has said morale remains high and that large numbers of soldiers want to return to the frontline as soon as they’re fit enough to do so.
One of them is Yuriy, who was injured during an artillery bombardment in the small village of Moschun near Kyiv.
He said: "At first, I didn’t realise that I’d been wounded due to the adrenalin. I thought that my hand was pulled because of the blast wave.
"I hid briefly in the trench and continued to fight, firing back. When I felt pain in my hand, I didn’t see any blood.
"Later we found a hole in my clothes and a bullet shard in my skin and I knew we had to get to hospital.”
Yuriy and three other soldiers drove to the medical centre for care, where doctors discovered a splinter stuck in the bone of his hand.
Yuriy, who has a wife and a four-month-old daughter waiting for him at home, says he's eager to return to the frontline.
He said: "Everybody is ready to fight and protect our people. We feel like victory is within our grasp."
Oleg, also a soldier, hasn’t told his family he has been hospitalised.
He said: “They’re already so scared that I’m fighting and I didn’t want to add to their worries.
“We are in communication via text messages. Before that I was in a place with no connection so we couldn’t be in contact at all.”
He says he would like to see a no-fly zone put in place to reduce the scale of Russia's assault.
He said: "This is no rescue mission, as Putin says. It’s a violent attack and we will defend our territory no matter what it takes.”
Yuriy, a 68-year-old civilian who was badly injured during shelling near Kyiv, says he trusts the care of his doctors.
He said: "It happened on the 3rd of March. My house was bombed completely. Now I have no home to go back to when I get out of here. We hear the sounds of war outside but I am not scared of the bombs inside the hospital. Seeing them on the frontline was much more terrifying.”
